Week 2 Preview: One Stat For Every Game

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Danny Heifetz (1:36)

On today's episode, previewing week two of the NFL season, we saw week one, so we figured everything out. We know everything's going to happen, right, Craig?

Craig Horlbeck (1:44)

That's right. And by that, I mean, I'm throwing everything out that happened in week one, and I'm starting fresh in week two. It's a clean slate.

Danny Kelly (1:51)

Yeah, nothing really mattered in week one. It's all about what happens in week two. We're going to reject everything we saw in week one.

Danny Heifetz (1:56)

Not everything. The things that confirmed what we already believed, that was real. The things that went against what we thought, it's week one. It doesn't matter.

Craig Horlbeck (2:03)

That's right. One stat from every game coming up.

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Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck. And we are previewing every game of week two. We're going to give you one fact stat, a little nugget for every single game of week two.

Craig Horlbeck (3:08)

A little nugget. Yeah.

Danny Heifetz (3:10)

Chicken nugs, baby. All right. We're going to start with I think we have to start. I want roughly chronological order here of the way the games are going to go on Sunday. But I want to start with I think Bengals are at the Houston Texans. I feel like that's probably the biggest game in that early window, which we can never agree on what it should be called. But I'm going to go with the early slate. 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific.

Craig Horlbeck (3:29)

You're the only one that's going to be right.

Danny Heifetz (3:35)

I am upset.

Craig Horlbeck (3:35)

I've never heard anyone in my life, East Coast or West Coast, have an issue with how we discussed the early slate.

Danny Heifetz (3:42)

My one fact for Texans Bengals is that CG. Stroud's last three games, he had five fumbles versus the Steelers, four interceptions versus the Patriots, and then two fumbles last week versus the Bills, including a game ending one where all he had to do was throw it out of bounds or into the end zone. And now they're playing the Cincinnati Bengals, who forced four turnovers last week, including three against Baker Mayfield.

Craig Horlbeck (4:06)

This game is really funny because one, I find myself out of the three of us here defending Stroud the most.

I think we're placing way too much emphasis on him fucking up that fumble at the end of the game. I really think he just like tried to step up in the pocket and make a play and he got stripped. But this game's weird because you're putting a lot of pressure on Stroud in this game, which I understand. Nikhil Collins might not play in this game. Nikhil Collins hurt his hamstring midweek, which just kills you. There's just nothing worse. I got Nikhil Collins in my high school league. You see the little cue pop up on a Wednesday. I'm like, he played the whole game. He had like 80 yards in a touchdown. He looked great. What's the problem? And it's like, hurt it in practice. Now he's getting, he's undergoing tests. It came out at the grade one hamstring strain, which is best case scenario. I don't know if he's going to play this week. I feel like it's hard to hurt your hamstring on Wednesday and play Sunday.